On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 10:46:27AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 10:36:52AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > > - move over to some other text input field and > > paste with button 3 > > You mean button 2. > > > except, vim stopped allowing the paste. > > > > Here's the change: > > > > /usr/share/vim/vim80/defaults.vim > > Generally speaking, yeah, that OS level defaults file can cause problems. > Lots of changes have occurred there. The good news is that it's ignored > if you have your own ~/.vimrc file. > > So, just create a ~/.vimrc file with something in it, and you should be > all set. >
I've had that for years. Last week I changed tabstops from 8 to 4. Clearly the problem can still arise with a ~/.vimrc in place. -dsr-
